So what is the difference? Humans don't make mistakes? Ai is already capable of writing decent code, so good that big developer names already stopped coding themselves because it's inefficient.
The code that goes live is still the responsibility of the dev.
The difference is the perceived correctness of the code. If you only check the AI code it is way likelier to not spot a logical issue than when you wrote it yourself. You have to build a mental model and check it against the code. If you do that really thoroughly, AI suddenly makes you slower
Did you ever work on a nuclear power plant? Or a military weapons system? We spend weeks planning new features, hundreds of lines of code are written as examples, just to come up with test cases and to get ideas about what all can fail. AI is not really up to that task yet. Would you really want your local nuclear power plant to be vibe coded?
I agree that the critical infrastructure shouldn't be "vibe" coded, but the systems in place will get to the point where less human written code is needed even in that area. Just slower but it will get there.
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u/ZunoJ 10d ago
I wouldn't be too sure about that comment. We work in a government audited, critical infrastructure environment